Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Boozer

Until they say we can't make it, we'll keep chipping away, and try to win and hold up our end.

John Lutz

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

It's facing more and more competition each day and that's going to keep chipping away at profits. It's an ugly position to be in if you're trying to sell half the company.

Paul Kurtz

They've been working hard on their games this year. I had them doing a lot of short-game practice. We practiced on the par 3 course, a lot of chipping and putting, really concentrating on the short game, trying to eliminate some strokes. Everybody has cut three or four strokes off their rounds this year. We'll keep doing the same things we've been doing all year and hopefully it'll work out for us.

They started chipping away. There were some things going on (minor altercations in the crowd and hallways) and we kind of lost our concentration. You've got to give them credit. They didn't give up. From the middle of the third quarter on, they outscored us.

They start chipping right after Christmas. If there's only a few trees there, it's because the parks department keeps it clean.

There was no real breakthrough to the positive side. Each one of these little nicks has been chipping away at investor confidence.

The report illustrates the fact that housing is not defying gravity and is not likely to do so this year. We're going to see chipping away of housing.

It was good already, and IBM keep chipping away at making it easier to use - so that lowers management costs.

Lynsey Addario

The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture.

Any chipping away at any already weak ordinance is very, very sad and unfortunate for the community and for the patrons and the people who work in those places.

Larry Flynt

You've got to see that this Justice Department keeps chipping away at our rights. The American people are so ill-informed that that they don't realize what's going on. And they won't until it's too late.

John Chapman

First, they'd have to survive the chipping process. Then they'd have to survive the heat of those big piles of mulch. Did you ever see a front-loader move a big pile of mulch and see the steam from the heat come off it? And then they'd have to survive being stuffed into a plastic bag. No way.

John Tortorella

Everybody is chipping in and we're playing very well at this point in time as a team. That's the most important thing. To win consistently in this league, you need to play as a team and that's the way we've been doing it the last little bit.

At that point it looked like it might be slipping away and we just kept chipping away one week at a time. Before you know it, we were on a real good run down the stretch.

Bruce Miller

We knew as long as we could stay within single digits we would be OK and we just kept chipping away.

We know teams are going to try to take away Kristen and Julie on the inside, and we've talked that someone has to step up and knock those shots down. They've done a great job with that. Everybody's been chipping in.

I felt pretty good about the round. I thought my chipping and putting were great and it was a good round. I just need to keep playing my game. I thought my course management was good, and I think the key to this course is course management, so I am going to keep that as my strategy.

We never thought we were going to lose this game. We kept chipping away, chipping away, plugging away. We showed them tonight what we could do. Hopefully we showed our critics.

We played really good defense the whole game. In the fourth quarter they kept chipping away, we just had to buckle down.

We punched it out pretty quick with a nice run. Give Simon Kenton credit though, they just kept chipping away at us.

The kids never gave up. They kept chipping away at the score. I told them 'We didn't have to get them back right away'. Angie coming in relief helped a lot and she did a great job.

Ian Poulter

He was flying traps at 320 yards, chipping on to the greens and generally putting us under a lot of pressure.

Our chipping and putting is improving, but we're still having some three-shot greens. The greens were a little slick, but overall the course is in good shape.

You dig yourself a hole and then you have to dig yourself out. We cracked back. We were down by 12, we were down by 13, we were chipping away. A good team makes you do something different with the ball, and they did.

We're not trying to do anything fancy. We're just chipping away.

Mats Sundin

We need everyone playing very well, we need everyone chipping in something and making a contribution for us to win games like that.

We made a vast improvement in our game plan. We were focused. We were ready to play. We're chipping away at this.

Ken Hitchcock

Our overall defensive play and goaltending have been excellent through six games. What I like is that we have different people every night who are chipping in. They've kept us competitive.

Chipping was the better part of our game. We've been working on our short game and now that is coming around it seems we have to work on the long game. Hopefully it comes together on Monday (for regional).

Kim Jones

Chipping was going well for pretty much everyone (and) most are getting off the tee pretty well.

Chipping and putting is what saved me. I only hit six greens in regulation.

The Sentence to Service workers transport the trees to the chipping site.